Staten Island developers win Good Neighbor awards

Advance photo/Frank J. JohnsJoseph Noce, Julio Mulkay, Borough President James Molinaro, Kerrim Jivani and John Noce, from left, celebrate proclamations in honor of Borough Hall's newly resurrected Good Neighbor Award. Jivani, Mulkay and the Noces were honored for voluntarily widening busy intersections boroughwide at their own expense.

ALL SHORES -- Residents of each shore of Staten Island have suffered through bumper-to-bumper traffic situations at bottlenecked intersections and on uber-narrow thoroughfares.

Thanks to four local developers and businessmen, though, three of those nightmarish locations have been, or are in the process of being, remediated.

Monday, at Borough Hall in St. George, Kerrim Jivani, Julio Mulkay, and Joseph and John Noce were honored by Borough President Guy Molinaro with the inaugural 'Good Neighbor' awards.

The accolades will recognize business and property owners who work with the government to enhance the borough's quality of life.

"Staten Island is a borough that has enormous traffic problems," said Molinaro, thanking the four honorees for footing the bill for the construction. "And we want to encourage other businessmen to come foward and do the same thing to help make the necessary improvements."

The Noce brothers did just that at the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Clove Road. "We sat down with Mr. Molinaro to discuss a paving plan, and we came up with a way for everyone to win with it," said Joseph Noce, an Annadale resident.

And Mulkay, who lives in Huguenot, couldn't agree more.

"I wanted to do my part to be good for the Island and for the community of Great Kills," said the developer working on the corner of Amboy Road and Nelson Avenue.